| World Statistics |
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Regional
AIDS statistics and features, end of 2000
Region |
Epidemic
started |
Adults
&
children living
with HlV/AlDS |
Adults
&
children newly
infected with
HIV |
Adult
prevalence
rate (*) |
%
of HIV-
positive adults
who are women |
Main
mode(s) of
transmission (#)
for adults living
with HlV/AlDS |
Sub-Saharan
Africa |
late’70s-
early ‘80s |
25.3 million |
3.8 million |
8.8% |
55% |
Hetero |
North Africa
& Middle East |
late ‘80s |
400 000 |
80 000 |
0.2% |
40% |
Hetero, IDU |
South &
South-East Asia |
late ‘80s |
5.8 million |
780 000 |
0.56% |
35% |
Hetero, IDU |
East Asia
& pacific |
late ’80s |
640 000 |
130 000 |
0.07% |
13% |
IDU, hetero,
MSM |
| Latin America |
late ’70s
early.’80s |
1.4 million |
150 000 |
0.5% |
25% |
MSM
IDU, hetero |
| Caribbean - |
late ‘70s
early '80s |
390 000 |
60 000 |
2.3% |
35% |
Hetero, MSM |
Eastern Europe
& Central Asia |
early ‘90s |
700 000 |
250 000 |
0.35% |
25% |
IDU |
| Western Europe |
late ‘70s -
early '80s |
540 000 |
30 000 |
0.24% |
25% |
MSM, IDU |
| North America |
late ‘70s -
ealrly '80s |
920 000 |
45 000 |
0.6% |
20% |
MSM, IDU,
hetero |
Australia
& New Zealand |
late ’70s -
early '80s |
15 000 |
500 |
0.13% |
10% |
MSM |
| TOTAL |
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36.1 million |
5.3 million |
1.1% |
47% |
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May Health be restored to Aids patients
* The proportion of adults (15 to 49
years of age) living with HIV/AIDS in 2000, using 2000 population numbers.
#Hetero (heterosexual transmission), IDU (transmission through injecting drug use), MSM
(sexual transmission among men
who have sex with men). |
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